Where everything is bipartisan until it is not.
To officially name someone as a candidate for a position, award, or role they may or may not want. It's the formal act of putting someone's name forward, usually triggering a complex process of evaluation, politics, and awkward acceptance speeches. The corporate version of voluntelling someone for extra responsibility.
A dramatic parliamentary maneuver where the majority party unilaterally changes Senate rules, typically to eliminate the filibuster for certain votes. Called 'nuclear' because it's theoretically devastating but both parties keep doing it anyway.
Someone officially proposed for a position, election, award, or honor by another person or group — they're not in yet, but they're on the shortlist. In politics, it's the person chosen to represent a party in an election. The term also applies to proxy ownership situations where assets are registered in someone's name on behalf of the actual owner.
Nowhere On Planet Earth—an environmental stance that rejects a project's existence anywhere, not just refusing it locally.
A political philosophy emphasizing strong military interventionism and American global dominance, often advocated by former liberals. Think interventionism meets ideology.
A province or administrative district, particularly in ancient Egypt or modern Greece, governed by a nomarch or regional administrator. It represents a unit of territorial organization between local towns and the central state.